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Article: Back from Iraq, soldiers flock to laser eye clinic; Refractive eye surgery has already helped thousands of combat veterans
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- September 27, 2004
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FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) - Command Sgt. Maj. Kurt Pinero looked up
from the operating table after laser eye surgery and could already
make out the pictures on the television screen across the room.
"It was amazing," said the 45-year-old Iraq war veteran. "It was
the first time I could see that far since I was a child."
After months in the Iraqi desert fumbling with dusty contacts,
smudged eyeglasses and prescription goggles, soldiers by the
thousands are flocking to get refractive eye surgery. And the Army's
picking up the tab.
"Our work load and number of patients has gone through the roof,"
said Maj. Glenn Sanford of the two-year-old Warfighter Refractive Eye
Surgery Clinic at Fort ...